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The First Flight -http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/wrights/1903.html
Orville and Wilbur Wright would take their very first flight. The picture shows the first powered and controlled airplane which they named the 'Flyer'. The Wright brothers had created a method for the pilot to control the plane manually while many other aviators searched for inherent stability. They worked out a system for 3-axis control that is still used today on fixed-wing air crafts. They conducted experiments using kites and gliders to improve their later designs. -
First Commercial Flight- http://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html
On Jan. 1,1914, The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat became the first scheduled airline service. It an operational service for a brief amount of time only lasting four months, but it did pave the way for the modern airline services. The first pilot to fly on this 23 minute journey was Tony Jannus, an experienced test pilot and the passenger was former Mayor, Abram C.Pheil. Specs for the plane: wingspan of 44 feet (13 m), powered by a Roberts 6-cylinder, liquid-cooled, 75-horsepower engine. -
Comfortable Travel- http://www.century-of-flight.net/new%20site/commercial/Flight%20in%20the%201930s.htm
Everything changed when Boeing Air Transport introduced the first female flight attendants. These women, called air stewardesses, attempted to make passengers more comfortable, offering them water, a sandwich, and sometimes chewing gum to help relieve ear discomfort. Ellen Church, a registered nurse, is credited with convincing Steve Stimpson, manager of Boeing's San Francisco office, that women could work in a role previously limited to men. -
WW2 German Aircraft -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_152
The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf. A pressurized cockpit to withstand the high altitudes (over 20,000 feet), To prevent fogging, the windscreen was of a double-glazed style with a 6 mm outer pane, and 3 mm inner pane. -
Air Travel in the 50's- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/15/air-travel-1950s_n_5461411.html
Early commercial planes were powered with pistons, not jet engines. As a result, they were loud, vibrated fiercely, bumped like crazy in turbulence and were grounded often due to weather (things got smoother after the first commercial jet debuted in 1952). In the 50s, pressurized airplane cabins were relatively new. -
Air Force Fighter Plane- http://www.fighter-planes.com/data9099.htm
YF-23A Black Widow II was an American Air Force Fighter plane. Some specs are: Length: 20m54, height: 4m24, Span: 13m29 -
Air Travel in the Future
Aircraft are still too heavy, use too much fuel, are fairly cramped and - most important of all - generate a lot of carbon. Different ways that air travel can be changed in the near future is by finding fuel alternatives, and make air crafts with more space and lighter.